Publicist: Whitney Houston has died

On a day where almost everything went wrong, Atibi Thomas and Keith Roach were lucky about one thing when they met nearly two years ago: Roach wore his bullet-proof vest. If Roach had removed the vest when he ended his shift as an Atlanta police officer at 3 p.

Fairburn will celebrate a milestone Saturday with the reopening of two major downtown businesses destroyed in a fire two years ago. The fire, which ravaged the city's downtown, destroyed three buildings and damaged two others. Mayor Mario Avery, the City Council and appointed officials will be on hand for the ceremony to mark the reopening of Oz Pizza and Fairburn Antique Mall at 10:30 a.

"Hotlanta" has fizzled and it will take a bold plan like the Transportation Investment Act to help the region recover, a nationally known urban planner told a Thursday gathering of metro Atlanta leaders. "You all have a lot of work to do," Brookings Institution visiting fellow Chris Leinberger told the 475 people attending the South Metro Development Outlook conference.

An airport concessions joint venture run by Atlanta-based Concessions International expects to lay off about 530 employees starting next month, though many of those workers could find jobs with new restaurants. Those affected in the move by the joint venture between Concessions International and Paschal’s include servers, bartenders, kitchen managers and others.

Fort McPherson, a 488-acre site between Atlanta and East Point, was founded by the U.S. Army in 1885. The Army closed the base last fall and the McPherson Implementing Local Redevelopment Authority is transitioning the property for civilian use. The site will take about 20 to 25 years to develop but work is under way: • MILA is working with the Army to transfer ownership.